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Crisis, Organisation and Meaning

Crisis, Organisation and Meaning

Smith, Graeme C. M.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

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ISBN10: 104140252X
ISBN13: 9781041402527
Publisher: Routledge
Pages: 286
Language: English

Crises in contemporary organisations, governments and societies rarely emerge from operational failure alone. Increasingly, they stem from fractures in meaning: misaligned narratives, competing interpretations, contested truths and the accelerating volatility of digital communication.

This book introduces the Semiotic Gyroscope, an original diagnostic architecture and practical framework for investigating how meaning is constructed, disrupted, reorganised and renewed across organisational, political, educational and societal environments. Developed through more than twenty years of research spanning knowledge management, knowledge transfer, strategy, organisational narrative and cultural semiotics, the Gyroscope incorporates a structured twelve-stage epistemic progression. It enables readers to detect meaning instability, identify interpretive torque and reveal the pressures that can precede crisis. Through real-world applications across organisational, governance, strategic, educational and geopolitical contexts, the book demonstrates how the Gyroscope clarifies complexity, reveals hidden interpretive tensions and provides practical insight into how meaning environments are changing.

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